Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for October 31, 2012

They can storm castles but not defeat the Huns?

Great work, men! I’ll take the Starbursts!

There’s probably needles in the candy.

Hopefully they got some peanut butter cups.

I was hoping for a Trojan horse pinata.

I’ll take the green Starbursts

Not to speak on behalf of the Brownes, but …

Names can coincide. For instance, we have the female name Kim, from Kimberly, the male name Kim, from Joakim, and the notorious Korean family name Kim.

Nor is it unheard of for Norse names to coincide with Hebrew names. Famously, David may also have been a Norse name, from Dagvid. (Evidence is suggestive, but not conclusive.)

And spelling was not standardized (hah!), particularly as many of the Norse names were taken down by others. Eirik Blodøks (Bloodaxe), an early king of Norway, was later twice king of the Northumbria, and the Danes took his name down as Eric.

The name of Hägar might well be Hergeir in a different spelling.

(Possibly even more to the point, there’s a 16th century farm in Norway called Hægar, but I have no idea how its name is derived. Could be a red herring.)

Big deal. Where are the peanut butter cups?

Rodney the Great scores again! And yeah GROG! where ARE the peanut butter cups?

What’s happened to the Milk Duds???

Snickers. I want the Snickers.